EP3544511A1 - System und verfahren zur quantifizierung von luminaler stenose unter verwendung von multienergetischer computertomografischer bildgebung - Google Patents
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- the present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for analyzing computed tomography (CT) imaging and, in particular, to systems and methods for quantifying luminal stenosis using multi-energy CT imaging.
- CT computed tomography
- Atherosclerosis is a disease characterized by a thickening of blood vessel walls and the formation of plaque containing calcium, fat, cholesterol, and other substances found in the blood. Causing limited blood flow due to narrowed blood vessels, or stenosis, atherosclerosis is one of primary causes of cardiovascular diseases leading to mortality. For instance, in 2014, 1 out of 6 people in the United Sates died of coronary artery disease, and 1 out of 19 died of stroke. Therefore, the degree of stenosis is an important parameter that is considered when identifying different therapeutic options, which can vary in cost, complications and length of hospital stay. With direct and indirect costs of care being up to more than 300 billion annually atherosclerosis represents a significant burden on private and public health.
- catheter angiography is considered the gold standard method for directly identifying the degree of stenosis in a patient.
- catheter angiography is a costly technique that is invasive and involves high risk.
- non-invasive imaging techniques can provide important alternatives to catheter angiography.
- ultrasound imaging is safe and inexpensive.
- the quality of image information obtained using ultrasound is highly dependent on the equipment and the experience of the technologists.
- performance is limited due to the shallow penetration depth of ultrasound signals.
- magnetic resonance (MR) angiography can image throughout the body of a patient, but has been shown to overestimate the degree of stenosis.
- MR angiography cannot be applied to patients with metal implants.
- Computed tomography (CT) angiography is a fast and reliable technique for determining the degree of stenosis. It can be highly sensitive and specific to detecting high-grade stenosis, and generates reproducible image information when used by different operators.
- CT systems measure the attenuation of x-rays, which is a function of the mass attenuation coefficients and densities of materials of the imaged subject.
- high density calcification in atheromatous plaque can produce similar pixel intensities on CT images as iodinated arterial lumens. This makes identification of lumen boundaries, and quantification of degree of stenosis, difficult.
- significant blooming artifacts may occur in CT images in the presence of heavy calcification. These can further obscure the visibility of lumens, and cause inaccurate estimation of luminal stenosis that may lead to false positives.
- stenosis is quantified on CT images by performing manual or semi-automated segmentation.
- manual segmentation requires careful selection of window and level settings, which is a time consuming process that suffers from inter and intra rater variability. This is because proper window and level settings can depend on calcification density, size, contrast and other factors.
- semi-automated segmentation algorithms generally have lower sensitivity than manual measurements and the accuracy degrade with calcified plaques.
- the present disclosure overcomes the drawbacks of previous techniques by providing a system and method for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging.
- MECT multi-energy computer tomography
- a novel approach is introduced herein whereby a degree of luminal stenosis may be obtained by generating and processing material density maps, such as iodine, water and calcium density maps.
- material density maps such as iodine, water and calcium density maps.
- a system for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging includes an input configured to receive multi- energy computed tomography (MECT) data acquired using a CT system; and a processor programmed to perform a material decomposition process on received multi- energy CT data to generate one or more material density maps, select, using the one or more material density maps, one or more regions of interest (ROIs) encompassing at least one vessel cross-section, and measure an iodine content in the one or more ROIs.
- MECT multi- energy computed tomography
- the processor is also programmed to determine a stenosis severity based on the measured iodine content and generate a report indicating the stenosis severity associated with the subject's vasculature.
- the system also includes an output for displaying the report.
- a method for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging includes acquiring multi-energy computed tomography (MECT) data using a CT system, performing a material decomposition process on acquired multi-energy CT data to generate one or more material density maps, and selecting, using the one or more material density maps, one or more regions of interest (ROIs) encompassing at least one vessel cross-section.
- the method also includes measuring an iodine content in the one or more ROIs, and determining a stenosis severity based on the measured iodine content.
- the method further includes generating a report indicating the stenosis severity associated with the subject's vasculature.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a system, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic illustrating a method for quantifying stenosis severity, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart setting forth steps of a process, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 4 are images demonstrating accurate stenosis severity determination using images with different sharpness, using the method of the present disclosure.
- FIG. 5 is a CT image showing phantoms that simulate different stenosis size and severity.
- FIG. 6 are example images and iodine density maps of the simulated phantoms of FIG 5.
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing stenosis measurements of a phantom, determined in accordance with the present disclosure, compared to the ground truth.
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing the estimation accuracy of the present approach for the simulated phantoms of FIG. 5.
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing the estimation error of the present approach for the simulated phantoms of FIG. 5.
- FIG. 10A is an example image of a simulated phantom measured using two different regions of interest (ROIs) selected.
- ROIs regions of interest
- FIG. 10B is a graph showing the degree of stenosis determined in accordance with present disclosure using the two ROIs depicted in FIG. 10A.
- FIG. 1 1 is a set of images showing stenosis quantification results from the commercial stenosis quantification software using conventional CTA images.
- Fig. 1 a block diagram of an example system 100, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, is shown.
- the system 100 can include an input 102, a processor 104, a memory 106, and an output 108, and may be configured to carry out steps, in accordance with methods described herein, including determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using multi-energy computer tomography (MECT) imaging.
- MECT multi-energy computer tomography
- the system 100 may be any device, apparatus or system configured for carrying out instructions for, and may operate as part of, or in collaboration with various computers, systems, devices, machines, mainframes, networks or servers.
- the system 100 may be a portable or mobile device, such as a cellular or smartphone, laptop, tablet, and the like.
- the system 100 may be a system that is designed to integrate a variety of software and hardware capabilities and functionalities, and may be capable of operating autonomously.
- the input 102 may include different input elements, such as a mouse, keyboard, touchpad, touch screen, buttons, and the like, for receiving various selections and operational instructions from a user.
- the input 102 may also include various drives and receptacles, such as flash-drives, USB drives, CD/DVD drives, and other computer-readable medium receptacles, for receiving various data and information.
- the system 100 may also communicate with one or more imaging systems 1 10, storage servers 1 12, or databases 1 14, by way of wired or wireless connection.
- input 102 may also include various communication ports and modules, such as Ethernet, Bluetooth, or WiFi, for exchanging data and information with these, and other external computers, systems, devices, machines, mainframes, servers or networks.
- the processor 104 may also be programmed to determine stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using MECT imaging. Specifically, the processor 104 may be configured to execute non-transitory instructions 1 16 stored in memory 106 to receive MECT data acquired using a CT system from the input 102 and process the data, in accordance with the present disclosure.
- Example MECT data may include spectral or dual-energy data, or any other realization of MECT data (e.g. separate single energy scans).
- the processor 104 may then perform a material decomposition process on the received MECT data to generate various material density maps, each map indicative of a basis material. To do so, the processor 104 may apply various image-based or projection-based decomposition algorithms, or any combinations thereof.
- Example material density maps include iodine, water, calcium, and other materials.
- the processor 104 may then be programmed to measure material content in selected regions of interest (ROIs), such as ROIs associated with or encompassing vessel cross-sections.
- ROIs regions of interest
- the processor 104 may be programmed to select various ROIs by applying different automated or semi-automated segmentation algorithms.
- user input may be used to select the ROIs.
- the selected ROIs may or may not include a luminal stenosis.
- Iodine typically exists only inside the blood of the subject and is homogeneously distributed.
- the processor 104 may be programmed to measure iodine content in an ROI by computing the sum of iodine concentration multiplied with the pixel volume of the ROI. The measured iodine content may then be used determine the stenosis severity.
- the processor 104 may calculate the ratio of iodine content between vasculature sites with and without luminal stenosis, according to the following:
- Multi-energy CT measures the material-specific and energy dependent attenuation properties of materials with different elemental compositions and densities. From a material decomposition point of view, the CT measurement of a pixel with a spatial coordinate
- M is a material matrix of size E x N and it only depends on the basis material, the x-ray spectrum, and the detector response.
- M does not change with spatial coordinates vector and represents
- multi-energy CT systems can be treated as linear, shift- invariant (LSI) systems or at least locally LSI. Therefore, the multi-energy CT measuremen can be expressed as:
- P5F(x, y) is the corresponding point spread function
- iodine density map p 1 (x, y) we can measure the iodine content (or the total mass of iodine) inside a ROI, which is equal to the integration of the iodine density inside the ROI multiplied by the pixel volume V:
- k is the integration of point spread function inside the ROI and p I T (x,y) represents the true iodine density.
- the ROI is defined as a rectangular with dimensions but (6) can be generalized for any
- iodine exists only inside the lumen and is uniformly distributed, the iodine content can be expressed as:
- ⁇ represents the total number of iodine-containing pixels inside the lumen (or iodine pixels) in the ROI.
- a percent of luminal area indicating a degree of stenosis may be determined by the processor 104.
- the processor 104 may be further configured to compute other quantitative metrics indicative of stenosis severity.
- FIG. 2 illustrates this process in a schematic.
- FIG. 2 shows MECT images 200 with increasing energies of an example vessel cross-section. Due to different contrast produced by different x-ray energies, the same stenosis in the vessel can appear differently, and hence result in different measured stenosis severity. Therefore, at step 1 , the MECT images 200 are used in a material decomposition process to generate 3 different material density maps 202.
- Each material density map 202-A, 202-B, and 202-C is indicative of a different material density, namely an A, B, and C, as shown.
- A, B and C represent water, iodine, calcium density, respectively.
- the iodine content or mass may be determined using pixels intensities in density map 202-B.
- another iodine density map of a reference site (shown as 204-B in FIG. 2) may be generated in a similar manner using another set of MECT images.
- such reference site is a vessel cross section without stenosis, which is selected from a location upstream or downstream on the same vessel, or from another branch vessel, such as the left and right carotid arteries.
- the percent of luminal area stenosis may be determined.
- Iodine mass is the product of iodine density and pixel volume. Since the pixel volume is typically constant in CT images, the ratio of summed iodine mass is also equal to the ratio between summed iodine densities.
- the processor 104 may also be configured to generate a report, in any form, and provide it via output 108.
- the report may include information indicating the stenosis severity or degree of stenosis associated with the subject's vasculature.
- the report may also include raw or processed images, such as material density maps, as well as images indicating or highlighting various regions of a subject's vasculature, such as identified regions of stenosis, or regions associated with a particular material.
- FIG. 3 steps of a process 300 for determining stenosis severity in a subject's vasculature using MECT imaging are shown.
- the process 300 may be carried out using any suitable system, such as system 100 described with reference to FIG. 1.
- the process 300 may begin at process block 302 with receiving MECT data acquired using a CT system.
- the MECT data may be accessed from a database, storage server or imaging system.
- steps may be carried out at process block 302 to acquire MECT data using a dual-energy CT system or a spectral CT system.
- the MECT data may be pre-processed as necessary.
- the MECT data may be pre-processed to remove artifacts, or to generate one or more images in a reconstruction process.
- a material decomposition process may be performed on the received or acquired MECT data.
- one or more material density maps may be generated, such as water density maps, iodine density maps, calcium density maps, and others.
- one or more ROIs may then be selected.
- other images may be used to select the ROIs.
- the ROIs may encompass a vessel cross-section.
- the ROIs may be automatically selected by performing an automated or semi-automated segmentation algorithm.
- the ROIs may be selected by a user.
- the selected ROIs may or may not include a luminal stenosis.
- an iodine content may be measured in one or more selected ROIs. Based on the measured iodine content, a stenosis severity may be determined, as indicated by process block 310. As described, a ratio of iodine content between sites with and without luminal stenosis may be used to determine a percent of luminal area indicating a degree of stenosis. A report may then be generated at process block 312, as described above.
- a computer simulation was performed.
- a digital phantom was generated simulating blood vessel cross-sections with a diameter of approximately 7.6 mm.
- Blood vessels with 67% stenosis and without stenosis were simulated.
- Spectral CT images with four different sharpness values (or spatial resolution) were generated by performing CT simulation and reconstruction. The results are shown in FIG. 4, for CT images varying having sharpness 0.25, 0.50 (standard CT images), 0.75 and 1 .00 (ideal images).
- stenosis severity was estimated to be 67.8%, 67.7%, 67.5% and 67.6%, respectively.
- stenosis phantoms were fabricated using various tubes and high density calcium cylinders with known dimensions.
- Four stenosis regions with various degrees of stenosis, size, and calcification were simulated (FIG. 5). Iodine contrast inside the lumens was matched to values used in clinical exams.
- the phantoms were imaged using data acquisition parameters as detailed in Table 1 .
- iodine density maps were generated from the acquired CT images (FIG. 6). Using generated iodine maps, a degree of stenosis for various CT slices was estimated and compared to the ground truth, as illustrated in the example of FIG. 7, illustrating quite accurate quantification of stenosis severity. The robustness of the present approach for determining stenosis severity was tested for different imaging conditions. The results are summarized FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, showing estimation accuracy and estimation error, respectively. In particular, no strong dependence on image acquisition parameters was observed. Furthermore, as illustrated in FIGs. 10A and 10B, the present approach is free from laborious threshold adjustments and labor- intensive segmentation. In particular, FIG.
- FIG. 10A shows an example CT image with different selected ROIs, namely 1002 and 1004, encompassing a simulated vessel cross-section.
- FIG. 10B a high agreement in the determined degree of stenosis is achieved between the different ROIs. This illustrates that the present approach can achieve high reproducibility with reduced inter and intra user variability.
- a digital phantom was used to simulate a cross section of a blood vessel with ⁇ 66.6% area stenosis and a reference blood vessel without a stenosis.
- the vessels were filled with 13.6 mg/ml iodine solution, which yielded contrast levels relevant to clinical contrast-enhanced CT exams (around 350 HU at 120 kV).
- a cylinder containing 406.5 mg/ml calcium chloride was placed in the vessel to mimic a high density calcification (around 1300 HU at 120 kV) and create a severe stenosis.
- a CT simulation software package (DRASIM, Siemens Healthcare) was used to generate projection data at four monoenergetic energies, 30, 50, 70, and 90 keV.
- images with four different sharpness levels i.e. spatial resolution
- FBP filtered-backprojection
- the tubes were filled with 30 mg/ml lohexol solution (lohexol, 350mgl/ml [Omnipaque; GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China]) with contrast levels relevant to clinical contrast-enhanced CT exams (e. g. about 350HU contrast enhancement at 120 kV).
- the dimensions of the HA cylinders and test tubes were measured by a caliber.
- a method in accordance with the present disclosure was applied for all three sets of dual- and multi-energy CT data: RD, MENLM filtered RD, and HD images.
- Three-basis material (calcium, iodine, and water) decomposition was performed to generate the iodine density maps for stenosis measurements.
- An additional volume conservation assumption was required for DECT and PCCT macro images to decompose three basis materials from measurements at only two energies.
- the stenosis measurements were performed at multiple slices along the long axis of the calcium cylinder and the estimation error was calculated.
- stenosis severity was analyzed with a commercial stenosis analysis software package (Syngo Via CT vascular, Siemens). After loading CTA images, multiplanar reformations (MPR) images and volume rendering techniques (VRT) images were created and displayed to the operator. The evaluation of vessel lumen was performed using the curved planar reformations (CPR) view. Digital calipers were used to quantify stenosis severity using default parameter settings (lower threshold: 50 HU; upper threshold: 940 HU). One caliper was used to mark the stenosis and two reference pointers were used as reference markers proximal and distal to the stenosis. Percentage area luminal stenosis was then calculated.
- MPR multiplanar reformations
- VRT volume rendering techniques
- FIG. 1 1 shows stenosis quantification results from the commercial stenosis quantification software using conventional CTA images.
- the intermediate lines on the grayscale MIP images marks the reference site with stenosis, whereas the top and bottom lines were used as markers for the reference sites without stenoses.
- the stenosis analysis software reported the percentage of area stenosis of multiple sites in the form of a 1 D profile, as well as the percent area stenosis at the reference site with stenosis (as marked by the red rectangular boxes).
- the axial images for the three reference sites were displayed together with automatic segmented luminal area.
- the material decomposition method in accordance with the present disclosure achieved good separation between iodine, calcium, and water, as illustrated in FIG. 6, thereby facilitating the use of iodine density maps for the quantification of percent area luminal stenosis. That is, FIG. 6 shows that material decomposition of multiple-energy CT images yielded good separation between iodine and calcium, thereby facilitating the quantification of stenosis severity.
- Top row CT images of the four stenosis phantom after MENLM Filtering
- Bottom row Color-coded iodine density maps in the unit of mg/ml from the material decomposition. Also, color- coded calcium density maps can be generated.
- the systems and methods in accordance with the present disclosure provide accurate measurements of the percent area luminal stenosis from CT images using clinically relevant dose levels.
- the estimation errors were below, for example, 9% and 18% for MECT and DECT (including PCCT macro mode) images, respectively, which were much lower than that achieved from conventional single-energy CTA exams and segmentation-based measurements. Therefore, the present techniques can address the clinical limitations of single-energy CTA for stenosis severity quantification. This approach does not require laborious segmentation or careful adjustment of thresholds and therefore is both practical and efficient.
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